Customer Reviews

Stone Soup

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This is a beautiful book. The illustrations are masterful, and the story is quite sweet. I would definitely share it with young children, yet the exquisitely depicted images make me want to show it to adults. The cross-cultural elements of the story are especially good for young children. To find a children's book that contains this much beauty is a treasure for any child.

My two children and I loved this book. They enjoyed following the little girl and her cat and finding them on different pages. It works very well to read out loud at bedtime. The monks were sweet. I don't know how they could have scared anybody. It was nice to see these faces in this story. Some of them were very funny. I was surprised to see how well it all fit. This was a nice retelling.

This is told differently than the version I read as a child, but it is told very nicely. The pictures are nice as well. Both my 4 year old son and my 11 year old niece love it.

Stone Soup.....what a lovely retelling of an old tale. I like that it takes the simple message of one by one sharing, gaining happiness and all sharing to gain community. I bought this book for my nephews. We very much enjoyed reading the story and examining the wonderful pictures. They very easily noticed the beautiful color progression as the story develops into something full, warm and sweet. The best part was reading all about the same foods we have at home. It is good to know that we too can make Stone Soup.

I love this book! It has a wonderful sense of dignity and humor. I'm pleased to see Asians that look like real people and enjoyed its spirit of encouragement. I don't like spoon fed morality and this story treats the reader intelligently. This book has a special place on my shelves.

Three monks approach a town that has grown isolated from neighbors and community. They decide to teach the town "happiness" by making stone soup. Each community member brought an ingredient and with everyone's contribution, they made stone soup and had a celebration.

This book is near and dear to me because I used it as a community building exercise when I was teaching elementary. I believe it shows how everyone contributes their own talents to make a better whole.

In the classroom, I would invite students to each bring one ingredient for our own stone soup. We might also create a list of "classroom experts" to show what each child's gifts and talents are.

what a wonderful book. the watercolor is enchanting and the book is beautifully written. the subject matter of sharing and rebuilding a community not only teaches children to love their neighbors, but it also reminds adults to live in harmony.

A book you won't mine reading every night. Great story with great drawings...My 4 year old loves it so do I.

We use this book for a school-wide lesson on learning what being SUPPORTIVE is and what COLLABORATION is. It is GREAT for teaching students because the steps in the story go from uncooperative people to people who WANT to help and they find out what it means to be SUPPORTIVE to make the entire village happy and productive. This is one of the very first books I read to my students when school begins to teach them these vital vocabulary words and lifeskills they'll need for a LIFETIME.

The author has introduced multicultural idea. My family and I love it for starters in this respect. Highly recommended.